McLeod Lake

McLEOD LAKE, pop 135, on the HART HWY 140 km north of PRINCE GEORGE, is the site of the first European settlement west of the ROCKY MTS and the longest continually occupied European settlement in BC. In 1805 Simon FRASER established a trading post here in the territory of the SEKANI, leaving James MacDougall in charge for the winter. Originally called Trout Lake Post, it was renamed McLeod's Lake Post, or Fort McLeod, after the trader A.R. McLeod. It remains a Sekani community; the FOREST...

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